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Time Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

68 Time quotes by George Bernard Shaw

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Nobody can live without conventions, a writer says, because they keep society orderly. He compares a married man’s past to a bachelor’s future and notes that journalists often write without a second thought. He also jokes about youth forgiving everything while age forgives nothing, and urges hard work to feel fully alive.

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A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

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May you live in interesting times

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Religion is a good invention in times of stress.

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

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Every man deserves to be judged in the context of his times.

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Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.

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The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against…

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“She has mischievious moments when she wishes she could get him alone on a desert island...”

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When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most."

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A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.

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Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.

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The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.

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If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for…

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“At her age! Nonsense! Time enough to think of the future when you havnt any future to think of. No, Eliza: do…

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When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single…

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You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There…

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The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price…

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Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our…

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I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do;…

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You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of…

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What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of…

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She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on…

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Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is…

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“She is to him the reality of romance, the leaner good sense of nonsense, the unveiling of his eyes, the freeing of…

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I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me…

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“On Monday last I sat without a murmur in a stuffy theatre on a summer afternoon from three to nearly half-past 6,…

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“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in…

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“I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege…

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“HIGGINS I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned…

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The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price…

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“THE DEVIL. As far as I went, yes. But I will now go further, and confess to you that men get tired…

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“It becomes obvious the moment we acknowledge the futility of breeding men for special qualities as we breed cocks for game, greyhounds…

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It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

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The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

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A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

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The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.

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“I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance.”

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The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.

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I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

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Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

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In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery…

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“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire…

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What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

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You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are…

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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

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The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child…

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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

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The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its…

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A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age…

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But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.

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Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

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The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.

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In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.

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